Cliff Crawling & Guava Guzzling (Ep. 8)

A week that begins with holiday jokes and a COD camo grind escalates into an all‑day push along Kauai’s Nā Pali Coast—equal parts gorgeous and unforgiving. I talk through the prep that almost fell apart at 5 a.m., when my hydration bladder leaked and I turned my backpack into a rolling ice chest of frozen guava. The jungle hum at dawn, the mental fatigue of walking loose slopes above the Pacific, and the infamous Crawler’s Ledge all meet a steady dose of realism: what’s actually scary isn’t the hype point, it’s the quiet, angled paths that slide when you stop paying attention.

Reaching Kalalau Beach delivers a reward that hits like myth—shade, caves, slushy guava, and a reminder that rip currents don’t care how far you came. On the way back, I detour into a canyon where GPS signals die between 300‑foot walls, chase waterfalls, and coax my way across sketchy crossings with more patience than pride. The pack weight bruises my collarbones, the miles add up, and dinner that night tastes like victory because it was earned.

Then comes the curveball: a surfing lesson on a battered toe, a chest rubbed raw against a board, and a sunburn on the parts that never see daylight. It’s funny and a little painful, but it sticks the landing on one theme—gear isn’t vanity when it saves skin, and pacing isn’t weakness when it keeps you moving tomorrow. Along the way, I share a new mic splurge, an Etsy art impulse, and a hard truth about the habit that might be slowing my broken foot’s healing. If you’ve ever carried too much, learned mid‑adventure, or found bliss in a cold drink at the exact right moment, this one’s for you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Holiday Vibes And Seasonal Songs
• 1:15 New Call Of Duty Grind And Camos
• 4:20 Energy Drink Promos And Weapon Pain
• 7:30 Fortnite Crossovers And Live Events
• 9:20 A Painfully Slow Foot Recovery
• 12:40 Black Friday Mic Upgrade
• 14:40 Impulse Buys And Etsy Art
• 16:45 Tattoos, Clout, And Internet Personalities
• 18:30 Setting The Stage: Kauai And The Nā Pali Coast
• 22:05 Permits, Prep, And Guava Logistics
• 25:20 Jungle Start And Cliffside Anxiety
• 28:55 Crawler’s Ledge And Loose Gravel Gauntlet
• 32:20 Reaching Kalalau Beach And Slushy Salvation
• 35:05 Rip Currents, Caves, And Beach Chaos
• 37:40 Waterfalls, Lost GPS, And Canyon Walls
• 41:10 The Grueling Return And Guava Math
• 44:10 Post-Hike Feast And Parental Pickup
• 46:40 Surf Lesson Fallout: Toe, Sunburn, And Rash
• 50:00 Big Winter Swell Dreams And What’s Next
• 52:20 Sign-Off And Tease For Next Week

Transcript

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Hey yo gang, welcome back. We're another week, uh another week down, another week in the books, closer to Thanksgiving. Seems late this year. I mean it's gotta be. It's like December, right after. It's going straight from Turkey to all I want for Christmas is you bopping on the radio. I mean, it's overplayed, but I still fuck with the heavy, you know. Although I want to know how much bread cheese Mariah Carey is holding off that song is crazy. It's like real life infinite money glitch. I need one of those. What's the next seasonal hit song? What can I write a good song for? Hmm. I mean, Christmas, that's that's locked out. I mean, I feel like maybe like a I was gonna say like 4th of July, but like I guess like the national anthem, but maybe maybe there's like some alternative 4th of July Bob. I feel like it's another big American holiday, many other ones. Easter, I feel like it's just not as like quite as festive, but I mean holidays mean Thanksgiving songs. I guess there's like no like there's like spooky music for Halloween, maybe Thanksgiving Bob. Half you can cook in the studio for that one. But yeah, it's been a busy week. I mean I I didn't get shit done, but I I got shit done, you know. Um New Call of Duty came out. Did the typical, you know, throw money at Activision for the same shit that's been rinsed and repeated, but spent the week, grinded to get uh the diamond snipers, and that was a good time, got to prestige, and probably won't play it until the next one comes out. We'll see. Maybe I'll maybe I'll play more. I didn't really try the zombies at all. Looks interesting, and the the story mode looks wild, looks like there's like some crazy weird boss fight. Although maybe you can't even pause the game or some whack stuff, but the movement has been decent. It's kind of like a weird in-between of like BO6 and BO3. There's some like wall jumping, but not like the full, like whatever you called that, like where you could do the exo jump and stuff like that. A little bit closer. Although I feel like it's I mean, it's it's I don't know. I don't play enough to like have a super great comparison, but they all kind of feel the same at this point. But you know, I'm had a good time. Unlocked some cops some like monster. I don't know, they have some promo, I feel like every year. And I feel like they used to have it for the Mountain Dew, but they don't have as much that have that as much anymore. But now it's like monster stuff, or you can get like some monster like a sniper, monster like energy the energy drink. They have some like promos for like some dude wearing like a monster hat, and you can get a sniper, so I had to like pay like 10 bucks for like to buy a coat for that, so I could you know really be dripped out as I was racking up um sniper kills. There's only like three snipers though, so it's pretty quick. Although one was probably one of the most painful guns I've ever used in my life for whatever reason the last sniper you unlock. It's it's like one of those three-round burst type beats, but uh it's got like a delay before you before it even like it's got like whatever, like it's kind of makes like the spin-up sound and then shoots out the three bullets, like the the triple burst. But that delay when you're trying to get you also need to get headshots with it. It was that was that was painful. I mean, it wasn't why I feel like the threshold to get like gold stuff has gone down over the call of duties. I feel like it's took me away longer. Maybe it's not. Maybe I was just like a little scrub, but back in the day. I mean, I'm not good great now, but uh it it was very frustrating for a while, like trying to get used to that because you can't like quick scope with that. You just got a hard scope and just like keep spamming the trigger because the delay is just the most frustrating. Like you like aim and pull the trigger, and then it's like nothing happens, and then it's like you get you get blue balls by your own sniper and get away from that. But we grinded it out, got the it's not called diamond, I forget what it's called. Arc light? I don't know. It's a little bit of a whack one. It's not I like the kind of the the real blingy, just actual diamond ones that used to have made more back in the day. But I don't remember what it was from B06, but I guess they try to make it not exactly the same. We'll see. I mean, I don't really anticipate playing more than that. Maybe, maybe there's a good reason. I haven't played Warzone in a minute. I mean, I feel like I haven't really played that since the pandemic when the whole gang was, you know, dropping in on Verdansk. That was the good times, good memories pilots the pandemic there. But we'll see. Because I feel like I don't know, I don't really actually pay attention to these types of games, but they're fun. I know there's like Battlefields is a six. I feel like I have no idea what number they're on. And they finally had their own like Warzone equivalent. I don't know. I mean, I feel like it's kinda there's everyone's got one. The one that is I played was the a lot of not so much this week, but prior was like the Simpsons, the Fortnite Simpsons, which is pretty it was pretty entertaining. I think there's supposed to be some big event for the Fortnite fiends out there. I where it's like I I saw something about Simpsons and Godzilla. Maybe there's a bunch of other stuff going on, but the Godzilla, that one hooked me and pulled me, and I'm like, I want to see Godzilla eat a Simpsons donut or something. I don't actually know anything about it. I don't think I've gone to or like watched any of like the the Fortnite live events since maybe like the the Travis Scott one back in the day, pre uh the original Astro World uh shenanigans before uh the unfortunate ones later on. But yeah, although I think I had an epiphany while I was uh you know grinding out um getting the the gold and diamond camos for snipers, I was sitting, uh, and I think I realized out of like habit, you know, how you normally like will sit with one leg crossed over the other where you have like your one foot on the knee. I'm just you know trying to explain that um easier to show you, but I think you get the picture. Uh I do that a lot, but I put my foot under my knee, so I'm like kind of sitting on like with my one foot like under my knee with my like thigh on top of it. Uh and I always do that on the one side where I'm basically sitting on my broken foot, and I don't know why it took me five months to realize that is that I'm doing that. I think it's just because it's like a reflex. I don't ever think about it. I just end up doing that, and I'm like, I sit like this all the time, and this foot is broken. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that this foot has not fully healed in five months of being broken, even though I'm actually relatively behaving more now in terms of wearing boots and stuff. I mean, I do some things that like are probably risky, but I still feel like it's been exceptionally slow. I've even been taking my calcium gummies on them flintstone gummies. It's not flintstone, it's some uh Costco on some Kirkland signature gang. But been abusing calcium, trying to, you know, really get them calcium bones growing, you know, really, really build that up, get them bones healthy and strong, eat my veggies, all of that. Uh, but hasn't made a difference, it's still been really slow. But I just realized that. And I wonder, I mean, I'm pretty sure that probably uh has some impact on the very uh slow healing that I've seen. But I'm gonna try not to do it. I don't know, maybe I gotta put like put a thumb tack on my foot, like tape it, something there, sort of like pokes me or zaps me, so I don't do it. Because I don't even I mean it's been five months that I've been doing it, probably. So or I probably just got I mean I should just wear the boot inside or something, but that's annoying. But maybe that's honestly probably the best solution. I should have been doing it the whole time. Maybe maybe if I do that, not for this next month. I mean, even without that, I would hope it's healed in a month. We'll see, we'll see. Could be a little bit longer. It's been really slow, but I feel like I would like to think that as it keeps getting more healed, it should be quicker because I mean starting off on the x-rays, it was like a big gap on my bones where on the broken one, it was like a big and it's like slowly closing in. So I feel like maybe not. It's kind of like also like broken, like three pieces. So it was like like a piece is like here, here, and here, and they're kind of like all grow coming together. So I feel like as it keeps getting all closer, that would maybe be easier, but I don't know. I'm not a doctor, maybe someday, but that's the next, you know, implementation. My uh relaxing. I mean, it's a walk bunny. My my walking boot is is looking a little rough. I've like totally worn off the tread on the heel. It's probably I mean, if I think about it, it's definitely it's right of the miles. That walking boot is probably I mean, I feel like it's fair to say it's got at least a hundred miles of walking on it. I mean, it could be more than that. Like on yeah, it could be more like 200. I don't think that's an exaggeration. And it's definitely not meant for mileage, so it's getting it's gotten real clicky. I feel like a bad bitch walking down the hallway in some Slidos because there's no rubber tread, it's just like the hard plastic bottom of the boot clicking on the concrete or the hallways that I'm walking down. And it's a little bit annoying, but it's also kind of satisfying. Cluck, click, click, cluckety-cluck. I feel like if I got put another boot on or I could like tap dance or something with that. Um, but I don't really want to spend$50 for another boot, especially when it's hopefully only another week, uh few weeks, month maybe, that I'm needing it. Um, and I didn't really, although I did almost uh totally wipe out because it's not got the best traction. And I was like walking around on a rainy day, and there's like, you know, it's fall, so there's leaves everywhere, so like the wet leaves on some like concrete. I about like did the splits. Actually, I almost the splits again too. Yesterday when I walked into my apartment, I, you know, walk in, take a step in, uh, drop my bag, take another step, and about do the splits. Um I was like, what the hell? How come what did I do? Because I just stepped and like one foot just like went sliding. And then I realized uh my puppy had just yakked a giant puddle by the door while I was gone, and I did not see when I was walking in and just did the splits in that. I was I was not pumped about that to realize about did the splits and vomit. Um luckily it was uh it wasn't like I don't think it was like vomit vomit. I think she just sometimes will like chug like her entire water dish uh at once without hardly taking a break to breathe. And normally when I hear that, I'm like, hey, yo, take a breather, time out, time out, flag on the play, hold on, just you know, digest for a second. Um, because she'll do that and then like a minute later she'll just like vomit it up, like just a big pile of water. So it wasn't like not like chunky or colored, but it was just a big pile of slides, it's actually like a pile of slime. It's kind of disgusting when you try to clean it up because like you poke part of this puddle and it all moves. It looks like it's actually looks exactly like egg white. It's like clear, but it's like got some like more texture to it than just like a puddle of water, and it's kind of hard to like clean up, especially when there's a big puddle of it. It's like you try to like wipe it and it all just like kind of slides around. It's it's kind of disgusting. And then I like uh wipe off my like or wash off my shoe that was just kind of covered in the slime. It's kind of like maybe I kind of imagine it is like if you had like the slime awards from Nickelodeon, but just transparent. That's kind of what it gives off. Um yeah. Do they still do that or are they like just slime about the people? I feel like it's gonna be hard on the stuff. I don't know where they do it. I just always remember when I was a kid seeing that on TV, they're just dumping slime on people. You know, I feel like they gotta be careful where they do it. Um because I feel like, yeah, I feel there's probably I don't know if Yeah, there's like something there's like the sperm races. I don't know if y'all saw that. It was like some I think they maybe did a few of them where they you know do exactly what they sound like, have a little mini track for you know some dudes to race their nuts, see who's got the fastest swimmers on track. Um but the loser, they also get slimed out in the same way with like a a tube of slime, whatever it looks like a questionable color. It's a little bit more white to it, not totally transparent. Um, and it's not the green slime. But they got like a proportioned off area for that, or portion, I don't know, like a tube where they go in, they just get you know get real blue khaki gang, dude. But uh that's uh that's a different thing. I feel like the slime, the Nickelodeon, they just dump it everywhere. Although with those sperm races, I feel like the first one I watched, I was I was a skeptical about it. I want to know, like, is that like legit? It feels like almost I was like, is this AI? I mean I know it's not AI, but I mean the races especially seemed like somewhat staged to me. Just because like one of them on the first one, like it was like blown out of the it was like a best of three race where they had them go off three times, and in the first two, like the the swimmers just totally stopped from from one dude halfway through the race on both of them. Like, I don't know if they had some like you know, gel in this little matrix that we couldn't see, and they just halted. But I don't know. I mean, I feel like that would honestly be thought plausibly pretty easy to do. Put something in there that would stop them from swimming that you couldn't really see, or I don't even know what we're seeing on there, honestly. I guess they could just be broadcasting anything. I mean, yeah, I would you know probably be tempted to do that if I were like a producer, you know, make it the most hype. It was it was kind of hype, it was kind of entertaining. It was a little bit wild, a wacky event, but it was entertaining. I don't know that I'd watch a lot of them though. I think the one-off one was entertaining enough. They had some interesting uh hosts and characters, so check it out, I guess, if you're intrigued. Where was I going with that? No, I think I was just talking about oh, yeah, vomit. Compare that to slime. Don't have any electronics to worry about. I feel like yeah, they could even just yeah, slime out their mics even. Oh, speaking of mics, we did get a new mic, blew some uh money on a Black Friday sale. Hopefully, you know, we really upgrading the quality out here slowly, you know, getting more professional. Although I don't know that we can get more professional, it's just you know, a little more bells and whistles are already pretty impeccable. But that's our deal, so I had to cop. I've kind of been looking at them. We're you know, we're moving up in the world gang. And you know, holler if this audio is impeccable. I think I actually have no idea. I don't even I'm hoping I'm hooking it up right and that this is actually even recording audio. I'll be pissed if I'm just seeing my like my lips flapping on the camera. I see this thing with a light on, so I think that means it's recording. I don't actually know what I'm doing on most things, but we're gonna see. Uh, but that was the first Black Friday impulsive purchase, and there'll probably be more to come. Speaking of, I brought an item for show and tell. I figured, you know, this might be a good section to uh include. Actually, I don't think it's maybe necessarily good to include, but I figured I will take a minute to uh show off my impulsive purchase of the week because I tend to do that at least once a week, and it's definitely not financially wise for me. I have too much junk, although I I mean it's fun, you know. I'm a material girl in the material world. Is that how the song goes? Something like that. It's a bop. Um, but you know, I definitely embrace capitalism game, as you can tell. But without further ado, here's what I impulsively bought this week another random piece of art off Etsy. I think it's fairly sick. I don't know which way I want to hang it. I think I kind of like this way with the looks more like a splash. I don't actually know. Um, if you're just listening to this, come check out the YouTube or Spotify video. You can see this impeccable art. I have to hang it somewhere on the wall. I have too much art anyways, just scattered around. But that was, you know, I saw that was on sale too. It was like 50 bucks when it says normally like 100. Although I don't know if that's the case. I feel like most of the Etsy sales are kind of like, you know, a little bit scammy where they'll have the prices at one price and then they'll just randomly double the price and then say it's half off, you know. I guess the the typical, I mean, that's not not just Etsy. I feel like there's lots of places. But that was the impulse purchase of the week. If that were the last impulse purchase I've ever made, that would honestly be fantastic for my finances. Uh, because I got bills to pay. We unfortunately don't got as much cheddar as I would uh like at the moment. We've got to get the money up. We gotta we gotta chase a bank. Maybe we gotta get that tatted on my face like Blueface. That's actually an insane transformation. Blueface, have y'all seen him? I feel like I saw something where he's talking about he I don't know what he was in prison for, but he just got out of prison for after like two years and broke got kind of kind of swole, but he also got like uh some I don't know if you have the tattoo in prison or out of prison or before, but a bunch of logos on his face. He kind of like uh got like I feel like he got like the MLB logo, the Chase Bank logo. It's interesting, it's a bold call, but uh I think I saw one guy that like had a similar sort of thing on his like arm, like but like way worse. Like he like he like I think it was both of his arms, he had like sleeves of the logos. Um, like at least blue face, like his on his face, he's like, you know, he got the chase logo because he's chasing bank, duh. But this guy had like everything up his arms, but it was like everything. He's like Caesars, he's like, 'cause I'm all that hot and ready. It was pretty funny that this dude was like saying it, expecting it that would like to be tough, even it would be a little bit more. I'd fuck with it a little bit more if he was like, you know, embracing it ironically, like, hell yeah. But this guy actually, I think, thought it was tough, which just hurt to kind of watch. But we'll see. Where was I going with that? I don't know, he got out of prison. I don't know what it was there for. I think I saw the 6ix9ines going back back to prison, is he? I don't know. I really don't pay enough attention anymore. I used to feel like I used to watch all the the Traplar Ross videos more in the past few years. Don't have don't have the inside scoop anymore, but I don't know. I think I saw he was doing some like farewell stream or something with Aiden Ross, and I was like, what why is he going to farewell? I thought he just I really don't know. I don't keep up. I'm just actually should shut up because I don't even I have nowhere to go with this. Um I'm just still sitting here with my bum foot, waiting for the day that it's all in one piece. I'm down to from 208 to 206. Is that how many balls do we got? I think so. I think it's 206 normally. Unless you're a baby and you got lots. Um back to running and climb climbing mountains and random shit. Hopefully, not falling off them. Like to do some more hikes, maybe. I mean, I feel like I was hoping to be doing lots by now, a long time ago. I don't know what the average time of YaleBone is. I feel like this is definitely on the long end, but you know, 2026, we're gonna be fucking around. Those are some dumb shit. Throwback to the time, like maybe I guess I go to did this like crazy hike in Hawaii um on the island of Kauai. That was a vibe, and I'm can't I don't know if I want to do it again, but maybe if I'm like stir crazy enough from not doing stuff this past year, by the time I plan to go back next summer sometime, I'll have to this hike again. It's a pretty cool hike. So it's on the island of Kauai, which is it's like the northwest. Well, not the most northwest. It's maybe the most north, but not the most yes, I don't know. It's the oldest. Okay, well, this is confusing because the way it works is like there's like a a hot spot on the ocean floor where it's like you know, we're getting magma being shot up under the ocean, but the whole ocean floor is moving, and as it moves, and this is like shooting up lava, it's like making different islands, so they're like drifting northwest. And so the oldest ones are like the more north mostly mostly west, a little bit north. So that's Kawhi, that's like the oldest one and the most northwest one. Although, like Ni'ihao, I think, is a little bit west of it, but I think it's somehow younger, which doesn't is maybe confusing because like if it was like further west, that would make it seem like it's older because it had to like been moving for longer to get that far over. But maybe it was like some of there's like some weird once upon a time, some extra branch and lava tunnel that shot up and made that little island, but that's all besides the point. It's not really at all relevant to what we're talking about. Um, so on, I guess I've been going to Hawaii with my family since I've been little. Because my parents just liked to go there, so we'd always go. I think we normally went to Maui and maybe like the big island a few times. Did go to Lenuty, uh the the pineapple island. I think whoever I don't know how that works now, because I think Larry Ellison, is that his name? I think the Oracle guy like bought the whole island. I don't think there's much on the island. It was like a pineapple farm. Maybe the pineapple farmers owned it, one of the big pineapple companies. But I went there once when I was like maybe 10. Actually, probably no, I think I was younger than that. But I just remember like it was like one like gas station, one little cafe on this island, and it was like driving around on a Jeep on like really rugged roads. I don't really remember much about that. But we started going to Kauai. Maybe I was like eight, I want to say. I don't know if that's right, it just doesn't matter. And then we just kind of kept going that from there, I guess, because my family likes it a lot. Now I definitely really like it. I've been to like Oahu once and it felt crazy. I guess I grew up in a pretty small town and like rural towns, so it's kind of like the vibes I'm used to. Uh and um Kuwait is like a pretty like relatively undeveloped island relative to the other ones. I think they have like laws like that no building can be taller than the tallest coconut tree. So you don't see any of the giant like hotels, sky rises, which are kind of cool. Uh it's just kind of big, big laid back, small town, smaller town vibes. There's like one main road road through the island. It's like very chill, but very pretty. It's like the Garden Island. It's like one of the they got like one of the rainiest spots on earth, like one of the mountains up there. And it's they had like a bunch of like filming for lots of movies. They're like Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean. Is it Caribbean or Caribbean? I feel like I think I say Pirates of the Caribbean. Wait, do I say I don't know which one I say? I feel like I might say the Caribbean, but I say Pirates of the Caribbean. And it's vice versa. And I don't know which one is one of those right? I feel like there's lots of things. I recently saw it was like something about like Waymo. I've never been in one. Are they all Jaguars? Okay, well that I just gave it away. Uh I think, is it a Midwest pronunciation? Jaguar? Jaguar? Jaguar? I feel like it's hard for me to say. But it was like something where they had some old dudes hop in one and they were like, oh, the comments were all saying, like, commenting about how these guys were calling it a jaguar, like jaguar. And that's definitely how I say it. So, but I was like, why is this comment so uploaded or whatever? Like, isn't that chat you say it? Jaguar. But is it jaguar? Jaguar. I don't know. How do you say it? Please, someone help me out. I don't know if that's because growing up in the Midwest. The other one, bag, um, like, you know, shopping bag, leather bags, that's or how most other people say it is bag. I feel like a fucking goat when I'm trying to say it, or like a sheep, like bah, when I'm trying to say bag. I don't know if like my the Midwest, like the A's are different to say, but bag is one I always got shit for when I'm like when you know on the when to school on the West Coast, people are like, what are you talking about? Because like there's if I'm saying like yo, uh please I'm begging you, or I'm begging groceries, like I feel like I'm saying that different, but maybe I'll have to like play this back and like listen to it. Uh listen to the recording because maybe it sounds different when that and it's just sounds I only or it sounds the same and it only sounds different in my head. But I feel like sometimes there's things like in other languages when I've taken stuff or like Japanese, and they're like there's like some different intonations where they say it, and I'm like, I can't tell what the difference is in what you just said was. So I don't know if it's like that, but bag, I really have to like fight to say that heart A. Other things, oh the roof and roots. I feel like I have to really go, ooh, because normally I say like roof and roots. I don't know if that sounds weird to people, but people always make fun of me saying I'm like barking like a dog and they're like roof, roof, roof. But I don't know. I ain't got nothing. Okay, back to back to Hawaii. I'm bouncing all over. Yeah, I'll talk about that hike because it's a cool hike. But so it's you know, really undeveloped. Uh I mean it's not really undeveloped, I mean it's just relatively doesn't have like as much like giant touristy things, still plenty tourist stuff, don't get me wrong. But it seems a little bit more natural, like it feels way more Hawaii to me than like when I've been to other islands where they're a little bit more busy. But I think there's you know, I think that's for the the Zuck himself. He's got like a bunker they're building there. I mean, I don't blame him. I mean, I'm trying to, yo, can I come visit, bro? Please help hook me up. I kind of want to check out the Zuck's uh Kauai and Kauaian ranch. That'd be kind of cool. People probably aren't hyped about it. But on the northwest of the island is like this giant like wilderness. Like the main road mainly goes from like the west coast, like kind of like through the middle island up to like the north part of it, and like the whole northwest corner is just like a big like wilderness, state park, national. I think just state park. I don't know if it's national, but it's I don't know if I know the name of the actual park. I think it's got some weird names, but like the the coast is like the na poly, which I guess like I mean it's just Hawaiian for the cliffs, like nah is like NA. It's just like the in Hawaiian, and Pali means cliffs, or maybe plural. I don't know. I don't know if it means cliff or cliffs. I don't actually know Hawaiian. That'd be cool to learn Hawaiian. I would like to know that, but I don't know that many Hawaiian words other than like Aloha, Mahalo, Hono, turtle. What else? I guess I know a few others, but not nothing like not actually speaking it. How many people actually speak it? That'd be I don't know. It would be cool to know and understand more of that. But anyways, I'm getting really and nothing actually abnormal is going on, but they have this like I guess like hike that goes there. There's some like it's true, they're like really cool beaches, like it's like some beautiful cliffs. That's where they film a lot of those movies that I've talked about, like the Pirates of the Caribbean beaches, like they're running on some of these like beaches that they're just like like really isolated and beautiful and pristine with some of these mountains in the background. I mean, that's sort of like a lot of stuff, like when they're flying into Jurassic Park and the the views of the coast of the island. I think that is this coastline because it's pretty awesome. Especially in like summer when it's like really green and hilly. It's not a little bit more brown in the fall and winter. It's not or wait, I said that backwards. Uh it's really pretty and green in the like winter or like spring, but like late summer and fall, it can be a little bit browner because it's a little bit drier, but it's still pretty awesome. Like the cliffs are cool. I think it's like might be like one of like the fastest eroding places on earth that just because like this like volcanic rock just like really erodes really quickly. Um, like some people like want to climb it, and it's like or like people ask about it, but like the people there are like, oh yeah, only if you want to die. And now that I've been there and like hiked it, it's actually terrifying. Like, there's one time I was like walking on this cliff and I'm like trying to like hug it and like grab like a boulder that thought was like stable, and I like crushed it and it just like disintegrated in my hand. It felt like I was like some super villain in a movie when you just like grab like something, like a big boulder and just like crumble it or like turns to ashes. Like I hit it with like the Thanos snap and it just like faded away. And it was like a big, like bigger than my hand. I grabbed it and just like turned into dust. And I'm like, that felt very uh not comfort like when I'm on this cliff trying to uh you know make it across and uh you know fall in the ocean and die. But um it's super cool, super cool to walk along. I mean, I've like done stuff like kayaking across it, and they should have these like I mean, some like more bigger boat cruises along this coastline to see it and sunset cruises. I have not these like little, this probably the most fun thing to do is these little like uh I guess they call them like the zodiac rafts, or it's kind of like the the inflatable boat with the motor in the back and they're you know leaning back, steering it. I guess they're normally they're normally standing in the middle, they're a little bit bigger, or that you fly across that. And you you get to kind of fly through it and see all of it. It's a little bit rougher. Took my mom once, um, and she found out the hard way that she's like very seasick. She we made it like uh maybe well as long as you're when you're moving there and you're just like whipping on the ocean, she's fine. But I think once we like stopped and you started getting a little bit wavier as you kind of were like sliding with the ocean, not fighting it as hard. Even though it was like a beautiful day in the perfect weather for it, she was wrecked, she was like gagging in the corner and out of commission. It was, I think it was a rough, rough rest of the day for her. I felt pretty bad, although it was it was pretty entertaining. But they're like, Oh, do you want to go sit back with her? I'm like, hell no, you can put her back there and she'll be fine. Just, you know, uh, I mean, call me if you need anything, but I don't really want to be catching her vomit. But it was it was a good time. Uh I think she took her like weeks to recover. She was like, we got back to land finally, and she was just like laying on the dock for a minute, like. Kissing the ground. It's it's pretty entertaining. But I think she got like was had like seasickness for like weeks after it. So I don't know if she got some like problem with the crystals in your ears or whatever, like the little rocks that you know keep things from I guess well, you have these like little crystals in your ears that like move around in some tubes that you kind of like help you balance and get some sense of where you are and things like that. And I think if you got problems with those, you can get all like nauseous and dizzy and things. So I don't know. But there's this hike that is super pretty, but it may be kind of dangerous because there are you're mostly just hiking for like 20 miles on the cliff side of this, you know, really eroding basically oceanside cliff pathway. I don't even know how it's maintained, but I decided I want to do it um a few years ago. Yeah. It's called the Colalao Trail, it's pretty sick, pretty sick. Uh and it's like something where you have to do, like, apply, it's maybe not six months, maybe like three months out. It's like you gotta like apply online for permits and it sells it like instantly. But I decided to do it, and then uh actually was like a few days before I was doing it. I was doing this like raft ride with my mom, and then we got to some point where it's like the narrowest part of it, and it looks like I don't even know. These people like on this mountain, this like cliff face look like little mountain ghosts. Like, you can't even I mean, I feel like the trail is like a foot wide at that point, and it's just like this, and they like drop off. It's pretty spooky. Um, and then I see in that from the water, I'm like, I was maybe having some technology. I'm like, oh boy. Uh maybe me, I don't know. I mean, I was full, I was still committed to sending it, but I was made me a little nervous and tell these people like I don't even know what they're walking on. It looks like they're just like glitching on the side of the mountain. And I don't know how they're not falling to their death in the ocean. Um and I was hoping mom gagging in the back of the road didn't see that because I felt like she would have freaked out. I think she did see it, but I think she was just so fucked up from being seasick that she didn't panic enough because she definitely has a tendency to be like, oh hell no, you're not going. What the hell? Like, I feel like she would have been fully with it and looking at it. Because even I was looking at it, I was like, what the hell is that? Uh but we did it, we survived. But I was like, I ended up like talking to like one of the crew, this little brat we're on, and they mentioned things like having like ropes to go on it, mainly for like these stream crossings. Because I guess sometimes on these like mountain streams, like there's like or like it's not really in the mountains at this point, it's kind of like just on the close along the coast. But if it like downpours in the mountains, like these streams can like rush and become impassable. Like, I feel like I've seen some headlines where they're like evacu had to like evacuate everyone on the trail. I think they only let like 60 people per day on it, but it's like evacuated. Like I see headlines where like six people evacuated. I'm like, that was everyone on the trail that day. How the hell? But I guess it's because like sometimes like storms and the like the the streams that you gotta cross to get back to the parking lot just are like too dangerous. Like, I mean, I guess it's like really rough and like you can't cross it, it's like you there's you definitely shouldn't because it'll just get like not so much like that you'll like Amelia will drown, but it's just like you're just gonna get swept and like slam into a rock and then it's gonna be game over from there, even though it's like a little stream, it's just so rough and rocky, where if it actually's got a lot going through it, you're you ain't gonna cross it unless maybe like rope swing tarzan. That's maybe an option. I feel like you could just build a bridge. I feel like that would be maybe like an easy solution. Although I don't think it happens that much. And I think that's gotta be easier than maintaining these cliffside trails because I actually have no idea how they like last because they're like pretty narrow and it's just like loose soil and gravel. It was actually terri. I mean, it wasn't it was I don't know, terrifying isn't the right word, but it was like very draining, mostly mentally doing this hike because like it's just loose stuff the whole time, and you're like worried. Like, I feel like anytime I like was not super like tiptoe walking, I start to slide, and there's nothing stopping you from the ocean. You just see this big, like this little like slightly flatter part, it's like a steep hill, slightly flatter, and then like steep hill again after that, and like you're just trying to stand that flat part and shuffle and not slide too far down it or off it. It's a little bit scary. Uh I'm jumping ahead, but yeah, they talked about getting ropes, and I was like, is this am I maybe in a little bit over my head? I mean, because I definitely do a lot of these like crazy hikes that they always like recommend, like, or there's normally like backpacking routes, but I kind of just like to do it in a day and get it done with. I think this one could be more fun though, as like a backpacking thing, because like this really cool beach at the end where like you could camp for a day, maybe two, although I feel like I might get bored after a few days or like two. I don't know. I just like to you know run and gun, run through this cliffs and then get back home, eat a bunch, and sleep in bed. But anyways, I did end up getting the rope. I'm like, okay, I'll have it. I got lots of stuff. I also bought some like prior to coming, some like big like metal cleats that I got to have on hand. That basically came because I had previously um almost fallen off an icy mountain. That was you know, that's a story for another day. And I think people had previously died earlier that year, same sort of thing. I'm like, I was dumb of me. I should have been more prepared. So I'm I've slowly learned added pieces to my thing, to my my gear that I'm you know lugging around. So I brought these like big kind of like not full crampons, I think as you call them, but like maybe mini crampons for like if it gets wet and muddy. I feel like I've seen videos of this trail in a storm or like rain, and it's like there's no way I'm not doing that. That's I don't that's just dumb. But so I had those, got this rope, and then I think my staples for most of my hikes are well, it's normally the cucumber lime Gatorade, but probably one of my favorite drinks of all time is guava juice, and I bought a bunch of it in Hawaii when I was there because I get some good stuff, good fresh stuff. And that was basically what I packed for this big it's like uh I think it's like 12 miles one way, so like 20 forest round trip. But I did also add on all these like a few side uh side pack side what the word side quest paths. That's just what I was trying to say. Go ahead and spit it out. But yeah, we did that raft ride. My mom was just recovering from that, but I decided to get my stuff together to get ready to head out in a few days because that was when the hike was, because then it was gonna be all day endeavor. Um and I kind of wanted to get an early start, especially because it's kind of used on the cliff, so it's hot and you're kind of in the sun, and I was like, kind of want to minimize that time. And we were it's like this the trail is like on like the center north part of the island, and we're just kind of staying in the bottom south. And I think I wanted to start at like 5 a.m. So I'm pretty sure it was like maybe like an hour and an hour and a half drive. I don't think it was quite two hours, but I feel like we left at like 3, 3:30 a.m. Shout out to my mom for you know getting up early to drive me there and uh drop me off. I think she would drive back down to the hotel, uh the resort we were staying at afterwards to get some sleep. But we I packed up um oh, what I was doing with my gate, my guava juice is I decided to well, I put some in the fridge, you know, to have cold. And then I had this like uh bladder, like it's not a candle bag, but some other like thing. It's like just like a big three-liter bladder that I put in my backpack and have like a straw so I can be slurping out of that. But the morning of when I was trying to get my final stuff together to get ready to hike all day, I started dumping in my lava juice into there and filled it up, sealed it, and I was gonna start putting in my bag, and I realized it started squirting, and I was like, oh no, what the hell is going on? And I realized that somehow my bladder had unfortunately sprung a leak, and I was like, wow, this is very unfortunate. We do not have any liquid. Okay, well, we'll have liquid, but we don't have to use a bladder, which is super nice to just be able to like slurp out of your backpack without having to like get a bottle or anything the whole time. So that was a bummer, but I did luckily like just buy a shit ton of juice and stuff, like more than I need, and I was probably just gonna have them bring some of it when they picked me up at the end of the day. But a lot of it I froze. I had just like several liters of just frozen guava juice. So I essentially ended up filling my backpack with blocks of frozen guava juice, just blocks of ice and water bottles. And had that, kind of kept my back cool, I guess. But I I don't think I actually had anything liquid when I started the hike because we got there at 5 30 and started off. I mean, you know, I probably actually I don't even know if I had breakfast. I probably had some trail mix or something. I don't I don't really like to eat though. I'm kind of yeah, I mean, I just drink a bunch of sugary liquids mainly because I know I should have something, but I never want to eat. I mean, I'd just, you know, hike a hundred miles on a white monster and call it a day if I were up to me. But it's like probably, you know, out of obligation to for everyone else. So I mean take a little more care of myself. I'll bring some you know sugar water. So yeah, that's my move. But not if it was drinkable when I started off, it was all frozen. But I was like, it's maybe a bolt call, but it was just gonna hit extra hard when it's extra cold later and I'm hiking. But started off, started off as hike at like 5 a.m. as dark as hell. But I had this really giant flashlight that I bought. I think it's called like the Fat Daddy, it's got a pretty awesome name, something like that. I don't know. But it's basically hiking through the jungle the first few miles, and there's like I think there's lots of frogs hopping around. So they have some really big bullfrogs in kawaii specifically, and like they're just like constantly hopping on the leaves on the side of me, and like I couldn't quite see them, but I could hear all this like life, and it's kind of spooky just walking through a dark jungle here and all this like these critters hopping around you. Luckily, Hawaii at least doesn't have too many like bugs and stuff. And even I don't even think they have snakes, so it's like kind of a safer-feeling jungle. It's not quite as eerie, you know, there's not that many things out there. I mean, they have like chickens all over because the hurricane Aniki sometime, maybe I don't know, some maybe the 60s. I feel like it might be more recent than that. Destroyed all like a bunch of chicken coops, and there's like no natural predators, other than now, maybe like house cats that are like stray cats are a problem that are maybe taking them out a little bit. But the chickens are just kind of run rampant there. But started off this hike the first few months just kind of in the jungle, hearing all these things hopping around you. Uh, up to like some first beach, that was kind of cool, but it's just me basically. I mean, I started before anyone was there. I mean, I had a permit, but actually no one ever checked my permit because I think I got there so early that it was like before the rangers were even like doing checks of stuff. So no one ever actually checked my stuff at this point, like any point through the day. I don't really know where they do that. I think I've known people that have done it and like they definitely got their stuff checked. So I had it all with me. I was legit. I had the documentation to go, but I was just too quick, too early. Started off. Um, I really had no idea how long it was gonna take me to do this hike. I knew it was about 12 miles. And I mean, I just kind of want to, you know, grind and go, get through, get to this end, the the final Koalao Beach. It's super pretty. But so I just kind of sent it off. Um, but the first, I think it's like I don't know, I feel like the whole hike, at least maybe round trip, is maybe like 7,000 feet of elevation gain. Even though you start at sea level, and at a sea level, you just really go up and down these cliffs as you go along them in like tons of elevation. And I feel like you go up and down like a thousand feet twice in the first like three miles to this first beach. So I did that, and I think that's like maybe what the my watch thing was like suspecting to be the slowest part because it's probably the most like physically demanding. But honestly, like for me, like I had enough like endurance where like that part is like I can fly through it, and it's not that bad for me, and it's kind of more fun, where it's like it was actually like a solid trail, maybe a little bit rocky, but like solid ground and like just steep, but like really easy to you know, just kind of keep cruising through that. And then my watch tell me, like, oh, you're gonna make it here in like three hours. Does that sound right? Maybe before, yeah, somewhere like that, maybe like three and a half, four. I don't really know, something like way quicker than I expected. I really don't know. I mean, I feel like Ultros is also not super accurate, even on distances over like long ones, like you can easily be a mile or two off, which is like can like throw off the amount of time you'd be hiking about like a fair amount, like by a whole half hour or an hour some places. I mean, I think I've had some real slow, steep miles on things that were kind of crazy. But I was you know powering through, and I mean I just kept grinding, but I did have in the back of my mind that I knew I think I knew at mile seven I was gonna hit this this narrow, super sketch looking thing from the outside. It's called crawler's ledge. I don't think I mentioned that before because people want to crawl on it, I guess. I think that's why the name calls it that. But I feel like that makes almost less sense to me. I feel like I feel like I feel less stable almost like crawling on it when it's so narrow. But I think that's why they called that. But I was definitely like after seeing it from the water and how sketchy it looked, I kind of was like a little bit nervous and it was like checking my watch. I'm like, oh, we're one mile closer to that fucking ledge. And I was definitely a little bit nervous, especially because after maybe about like four or five miles, like you kind of get through kind of the main, like jungly up and down to like more exposed, just on this like cliffside path, and where it's just like this loose gravel, like I was saying, and you can like slip pretty easily if you're not walking carefully. And I was kind of pretty stressed walking on that, like because I was like, I can't relax, I gotta constantly be like stepping carefully, and I like I get to a part maybe like more a little inland, less close to a cliff, but in the jungle, and I kind of like relax, walk a little bit more carefree, not even like carefree, but just like not like super carefully. And I started slipping, I'm like, I was like, what the fuck? I'm like, I cannot like chill out and walk like at all without like very carefully if I don't want to like die, which kind of stressed me out a little bit, and then I was like, No, that was coming up. But honestly, when I or actually right before this, like you have to go on this really loose stuff down this like steepish trail to that ledge, and that was honestly one of the more scary parts to me. And I was like, Oh gosh, we're going down this, and then you like worry about running into people because it's like there are people coming back from the trail in there, and so you gotta worry about that. It's kind of a headache, like it's barely, it's hardly wide enough for one person. But actually getting to that crawler's ledge, that part was actually a relief because it was like pretty like rocky material, and I guess that's the only reason it stays. Like, if you were the other like type of loose rock, it would be like gone within like a week. I don't know how the trail is maintained on other parts. I mean, it barely is, but I feel like just a good rain would wash it away, honestly, because it's so like shallow and like loose stuff. But that part was actually pretty chilled, like the the crawl out of the ledge that was like the most hyped up part, and like maybe because it's like high up and like really narrow, but like I felt relieved when I was stepping on that stuff because it was like finally like solid rock that I wasn't sliding around on as much. It's like you kind of gotta hug the wall a little bit more. But I'm like, this is great, give me 10 more miles of this. Because after that, actually was probably the worst part where you have like these big windy stuff of like just sort of like just open cliffs, but like you're kind of walking on like a constant angle and it's loose gravel, and I'm like trying to like grab hunt vines on the wall, but it's just like just giant cliffs like dirt on these parts, and some of it curved down and so loose, and I was like, I was kind of it was a little bit sketchy. There are some parts where you kind of come down a hill while you're doing that, and I was like, that's too steep, or I don't trust that my shoes are not gonna start sliding on this loose gravel, so I legit just like sat on the ground and just like scooted on my ass down this little like hill and turn. I'm like, I'm not taking a chance, I'm just gonna get this brown butt. But I just kept grinding, kept going, and you know, across a few streams. I mean, I didn't really pass so many people till the first few miles until I got later in there. Then I came across the people that were like camping at the campgrounds and whatnot. So on, but I think I made it to the final beach at about like five and a half hours, I would say, and I didn't stop really. No, I didn't stop at all that time. It was like five and a half hours solid. I think close to the end of it, maybe like a half mile from the thick beach. It's like I finally got to like you're back at sea level and kind of walk through the jungle up to this beach clearing. Um, but there's like some less stream crossing I did, and some like old lady, she was like, Oh, you gotta try some of my Jamaican passion fruit that I just picked. And I was like a little bit sussed, but I was like pretty thirsty at this point because I've been you know hiking through the jungle and in the sun for five and a half hours and like 12-ish, 13-ish miles. And I was definitely, I mean, and also I lost elevation, so I was I mean, I wasn't gassed, but I was like in need of some you know sustenance. So it was like, fuck it, I'll try this these patched fruit. And they were definitely, I mean, I'd have to maybe try them again, like in less uh dire conditions, but them shit really hit. I will say they were they were pretty fire. Uh not as much as what will hit next, but I definitely ate this like little pile of you know passion fruit or lily koi. I think that's the same thing. I think it's just like a I don't know if liliquoi is a Hawaiian word for it. Uh but then finally made it to the beach and then cracked open my backpack full of icy guava. And by this time it was impeccable timing because you know being out in the the warmth and the heat of my back, the one closest to my back finally turned to a perfect slushy consistency of guava juice, and just chugging that definitely gave myself a horrible brain freeze, not gonna lie. But still, it was definitely orgasmic drinking that guava juice after all that hiking and not having anything, any liquid or whatnot. I think I did bring a filter bottle where I could filter string, but I didn't really want to do that. I still I kind of want to filter my I have a filter bottle that I have and had for years, but I've actually just never used it. I just have it in case. I don't really not super keen on you know drinking stream water, but I kind of wanted to just have done it once. But not today, not that or not that day. Choked that guava juice and sat into these like shaded area chilling and hung out for a little bit and then I decided to go check out this big beautiful beach that I hiked all day to go get to. And I kind of stepped out, I mean I like threw off my backpack and stuff. I I can't remember. I don't think I hiked in a swimsuit, but I think I just planned to swim in my hiking shorts that I wore. But it doesn't matter. I like decided I put all my stuff other than like I think I have probably phone with me in a bag and whatever, maybe some juice, and decided to like walk. It's a pretty deep beach, kind of like some of like the Cali beaches, like the Santa Monica, where it's like a lot of sand before the water, surprisingly. But I think it depends on the time of year because sometimes it gets rough in the winter and like there's not much beach actually available. But I step out into the sunny beach, and for whatever reason, this sand is like a million degrees. I don't know how this stuff's actually not glass. Like I started taking a few steps, and all of a sudden my feet are burning, so I'm like, what the fuck is this? I just start like sprinting towards the the ocean because my feet are just burning. And I was like kind of going towards a couple, and like I'm just like sprinting, like my feet on fire, and I'm like, give me to the water. Like, I feel like I don't even know. I feel like some is that a Spongebob thing where now I don't have a Spongebob, but I'm just like running my feet burning. I'm like trying to like do high knees, hot potato with the ground, touch it as little as possible. Like the floor was actually lava on my bare feet, right? And that we're hiking all day, and like I felt like they were getting a blister. I was just like, uh uh uh it's like uh I don't know if you ever like walked on hot pavement at like around a pool sometimes. If it's got dark pavement and like you're walking barefoot between the pool and burn your feet that way, it was like that, but I was just like trapped in this giant beach. Like I got in too deep before I realized how hot this hand was, and I was like, oh no, and I just had to like keep running. But I was going across this beach, and I kind of like, I mean, it wasn't paying attention, I was just like focused on water. That was my only thing, not burning my feet anymore. And I really just was like a pair of people in the distance. I was kind of get closer and like ran up into this, like on this pair of people, and I totally realized, didn't realize till I got like right there. And but I was I was my eyes were on the prize, I was ready to get my feet in the water, cool them off, like dipping them damn, like you know, Forge putting the blacksmith putting the the metals and the the water, cooling them off his molden hot sword, that's what I was like trying to do with my feet. Uh and I finally got there and I look over and I realize this couple's a butt ass naked, skinny dipping on the beach, which honestly respect. I mean I get it there, although this is like a pretty popular. I mean, relatively to like any other spot on the island, not at all popular because there's not hardly any people that can get there, but this is like the main part of the hike, and I don't know if they didn't want me there. Like, I feel like they they like shrieked and then ran back naked to the trees where I mean it wasn't where the stealth was, so I don't really know what the freaked out, but I didn't care. I was like, I I needed to put my feet in the ocean, but also the ocean there is a little bit spooky, like the waves, the current or whatever, like it's got like you know when you kind of like it pulls you out a little bit. Like when I got in, I was only knee high in the water. Like I just got in like finally, then I started feeling like this thing is like really like it's like really sucking me out. This like tide is like like low-key, sucking me like a crack or outer rock right now. And it's like I do not want to go higher than this in my like higher than like knee depth, because I feel like it's gonna suck me out, like the whatever rip tides. Because I'm kind of curious, I'll admit, there's like another beach, like maybe like a mile down where you could like sometimes, sometimes you could walk there, but normally it's like a swim, an open ocean swim, which is like oh sounds kind of fun. But after like feeling that I'm like, these waves are a little bit big, and this is kind of like a strong current. I was like, I should probably not, you know, do my first open ocean swim solo in the middle of this wilderness, uh, with yeah, anything or anyone to like supervise me. So I did I did call it there. One of the few rare responsible decisions I make, but I do make them, you know, for my best interest, you know, keep the sweat going. But uh did kind of explore the rest of the beach, staying close to the water where I could occasionally dip my feet in or where the sand was wetter and cooler. Um checked it out, walked through some caves, found another couple in a cave. I think they were just having a picnic though. I was like walked in, I'm like, did I just walk in on some other shit? I didn't I was a little bit leery of as I walked around in this like sea cave where it's kind of like it's pretty cool. It's like a big like cliff, and like I think the water is sometimes like carve it out, maybe in the winter when it's higher, but at this time of year it's like dry in there, so it's kind of cool. Then hung out, chugged some work guava juice flushy. Uh took a little shower on this like waterfall that they have at the end of it. It's like a freshwater waterfall where you can like shower off the sun. This I mean not the sun, this the sand and the salt water. It felt pretty, pretty amazing. And then I just started booking it back. Although on the way back, like I noticed there's like several like trails for waterfalls. I was kind of curious to check out. I think I did there's maybe like two or three of them, and I think I did all but one, mainly because I was like checking the time of seeing how long it was taking me. I thought for sure I was gonna be able to have to do time to do all of them and more uh with the pace I was going at first the first few miles, but then when I hit like the the really sketchy like sand, then I like slowed way down and my pace like tanked, but I was like, I'm not going faster on this stuff. Like, if I go any faster, I'm definitely that's gonna be an RIP. I'm going, I'm not going you know, zero to sixty ever again. I'm going zero to twenty-three or whatever the hell it was. I don't know. Something like that. But made it well, so I think the first one of the waterfalls, it was like it said it was like only a mile, but I was like hiking in this jungle. I guess it's like it's a little bit more less close to like the coastline and the water. You kind of like hike more into the jungle to get this waterfall. That's I guess the furthest on the trail, but the first one I came across on the way back, uh I don't really know the name of it, but I was like kind of hiking, kind of trying to follow what I think is a trail, although it's a little bit loose, and then all of a sudden my like GPS just totally blonks out, it's like teleporting me across the all over, and I'm like seeing my trail on there. I'm like, this thing is cooked, and I was like, Well, I'm just gonna keep walking on what I think is a path, and as well, if I lose any more confidence that it's a path, I'm just gonna turn back. But kept going. I did just see some people, and I eventually got to this waterfall, and it did make sense why my GPS was not working at all because I realized I was in the bottom of like this like 300-foot canyon, like these cliffs are like totally like straight up. Like, I try to take videos of it, but it doesn't even do justice, so it's pretty sick. Like, you're just like the bottom of it, and it's just like 300 feet vertical walls all around you in a waterfall just straight down. It was it's pretty awesome, pretty spectacular, I will say. And like, I see that's why I have actually like no GPS signal. I was like, I my GPS is bugging out, and I was like, managed to, you know, hang on to what I could find of a trail. Definitely had some challenging situations like that where there's like the trail is overgrown, and I'm like, I think this is logically a trail, but there's definitely many deceiving things, so it's not that easy, and it's very easy to mess up. But I was glad I didn't make it make any mistakes, especially like when you're in jungle, everything looks the same. It's a little bit tricky, but we made it. And then I think there was another one that I did. I think was there another one? I kind of I think so. I think there's one more, and then there's one I didn't do at the end because I had the whatever the agreed upon time to meet my parents, and I knew if I was late for that, they'd totally panic. I mean, I mean, I think they would know they shouldn't panic, but I didn't know that would, so I was like trying to minimize that. Although I think they still got there a few hours early just because that's how they are. Um, but then you know, just made my way back, chugging my guava juice along the way as it became from ice to slushy to liquid, and beat them, or well, I guess they were there and I didn't even realize it, but I was kind of like in the park still, and I decided to sit at one of these beaches for a while, swim around there, kick off my shoes finally. That well, I guess I kicked them off once before, but after the last part. My feet were actually pretty sore because on this last way back, for whatever reason, I think I was I don't know if it's from like cross-country running, if I just got like this really lazy stride where I feel like I when I'm hiking or sometimes even running, like I lift up my feet as little as possible when I'm kind of just going for like long distance, and I was doing that, but I kept kicking these like rocks that are like embedded in the trail. Like I did it several times really hard on my big toe, and it like was pretty sore. So I was like, I want to take off shoes and just let it you know breathe in the water and just my whole self swam around and then you know saw my parents who were relieved that I didn't fall off a damn cliff or anything, or yeah, getting eaten by anything, get knocked off by a pig. Some of the zones were like they say it's like you weren't in wild pig territory or like weird gates. I feel I forget what they say, but that was whatever. I did it, I made it through the trail, finished the Colola trail, and then we ended up, you know, finding some restaurant in the town nearby. And I think that was probably one of the best meals I'd ever had. But also again, it was probably part of my condition because I had legit not eaten anything all day, just chugged guava juice, which you know probably had enough calories where I was like somewhat sustained. I mean, I definitely would be in an effort, but like still, like I mean it probably had I don't actually know how big these bottles were. Because also my collarbones were bruised by the end of the day from the weight of this backpack just full of like just blocks of ice. I don't I think it were these were two-liter things. I think I legit had six liters of guava juice that I drank. And they were just in my backpack. My collarbones were sore as hell, and they were like purple for like the next like week or two, just from the weight of it, especially because I did the first whole half of the high with all that weight. Like how much like six liters? I feel like it's more than that. I don't know. I don't know, actually no, it's like a gallon and a half. I feel like I did the math at one point and it was like 30 pounds. So maybe back calculate how much liquid it is from that. I want to say it's like eight gallons of eight pounds per gallon. So it's a f no, I feel like 30 pounds, maybe 20 pounds. I feel like maybe that might be more accurate. 20 pounds? So is that like two gallons, which is like eight liters? I don't know. It was a lot of guava juice. Like an excessive amount. But I got some, anyways, it doesn't matter. We got to this restaurant, we got some sushi. My parents never had sushi before, they're real Midwestern, and they're like I was kind of like resistant to it, but I'm well we didn't try like super duper normal sushi. I got like some like the real American sushi with like all the fix-ins. I think I got them one where it was like maybe even like fried salmon in it with covered in sauce and stuff. I mean, also honestly, also I love that kind, so I wasn't mad about it. And then I got like this plate of like rice and teriyaki tuna, I think. Yeah, but they brought it. I think they brought my plate first, and I like scarfed that shit down like the hat. And they came back with my parents' food, and my plate was already gone. They're like, uh, are you okay? Do you want more? And I was like, Yes. I don't think like I think they're kind of like kidding when they were asking that, but they also couldn't believe how fast that food was gone. And then I was like, Yes, and they're like, Oh shit, he's not kidding. And I'm like, please. And then they did that, and like my parents had finished their meals by the time they brought me another whatever plate of food. I scarfed that down again too in a minute, and then they they came back to check on that again, and it was like already gone. And then dessert. We got some like brownie sundae. That was also amazing. Delectable. Can't speak nothing but the highest price for that in that moment. With some sun, not Sunday, with some ice cream. Gobbled that up and then, you know, got home, showered, and clonked out for like 12 hours. Because I think it was like a total of like 27 miles of hiking and like yeah, 7,000 feet. Slept real good. Although I forgot I scheduled a surfing lesson for the next morning. So I think I scheduled it for the like afternoon. Well, I think I still slept plenty, slept a good amount. Then went to the surfing lesson. I had only gone like once, like 10 years prior when I was a kid. And it was pretty fun. It always looked fun. I always wanted to do it. It was very fun. Although several more unfortunate things happened. Like I was saying, my toe was obliterated from kicking rocks. Um, so that was like a little bit unfortunate. Um, also this surfing. Uh the guy was like, Do you want me like whatever shirts? And I'm like, no, that's lame. I don't know where this shirt and I'm on the surfboard. Um, didn't think nothing of it, but by the end of it, or like actually nothing, nothing hit me till later in the day, to be completely fair. I did it. The surfing was fun. I the only bad thing I get in the moment was like, I think I went out there with got contacts, and like, but by the time I was done, I was like, realized like I can't see shit. I must have like lost my contacts. I must like wash out of my eye when I ate shit off the board a few times. But the things that really hit me later in the day were not wearing a shirt. I think I got like a whole rash all up my chest, and that shirt was like pretty sore and tender. It's like a weird like scab on it. That kind of hurt. The other thing is like because it was like sort of early at later, I think it was like maybe 10 or 11 o'clock. It's not super early, but like I was trying to sleep in as much as possible after hiking and all that yesterday. So I just quickly put on my suit and like ran down to like the the because like it was like an ocean front resort, and there's like a surfing shop rental hot where they had that at to pull up there. So I didn't even put on sunscreen, but like I wasn't that concerned about it because like once I do a little bit, I mean you still should wear your sunscreen kids, you know, it's good for everything, your health, you know, stay young, don't get skin cancer. But I feel like burn-wise, I'm usually pretty resistant if I've had some sun and already been there for a week at that point, been there all day. But what I didn't consider is like when you're on the surfboard, you're on your belly, and the backs to your legs are the things that are up, and those probably don't get nearly as much sun as the rest of my body. So I burnt the shit out of like particularly like the your like knee pit, like this part uh of there, that part got like crisp, even like the back of my like thighs and my calves were like pretty roasted and sore. So those were sore, my chest was sore, and I fell off the surfboard at one point, and it's kind of a rocky area, and I like slammed my sore toe into like a big hunk of lava rock, well, at least once, maybe not twice. And that did not feel good on my already fucked up toe. So nothing like really hit me, and I don't even think the soreness from all the hiking the day before it hit me, but then I was like finished that, had a smoothie, then we go sit in the hot tub, and then my toe just started like felt like it was gonna explode. It felt like there's a bomb in there, and it was like just ready to blow. It hurt so bad, and just like I could like feel every like heartbeat and it was like boom, boom, boom. I don't like what the fuck. I was like, is it because I'm in the hot tub? What's going on? And like it looked fine, although it was definitely my toe was like noticeably larger than the other big toe, but it didn't look that bad. Uh, but I still was like, it hurt so bad, and like I went up to the hotel room and like popped some tile and all and just filled up like some salad mixing bowl that was in the cupboard that they had and filled it with like all the ice in the fridge and water and just shoved it in there. It was like so cold it hurt my feet, but then it was like it hurt my foot, but now it felt good on my toe, so I just like dipped my toe in there. Eventually, like I think the tile kicked in, then I went back down to the beach and swam around, but then like my chest and my legs started to hurt more from the the sun and the rash, and then I think also maybe just the soreness from hiking the day before. Because you also get scratched up by all the branches and stuff when you're going through jungle with stuff, so it's kind of everything stings a little bit in the pool and the salt water. So after that, I like just totally was a potato for like the rest of the night in the afternoon after like swimming for a bit. But I did a lot more hiking actually after that on that fucked-up toe, which I'll maybe talk about next time. But it was bizarre, like the toe itself, it didn't actually look it hurt so bad for a long time, but it you could never tell anything was wrong with it. Like from outside visually, it looked just fine, especially the only thing really was like the first day, it just looked larger than the other one. Like that toe was bricked up, but it didn't have like any discoloration to it. It didn't even like wasn't even really red, it was just like puffier, but not like it didn't look weirdly puffy, didn't look like you know those dogs sung by bees where they got like the the really fat face or anything, but it hurt so bad. Like it was like it felt like I had like stubbing my toe over and over on every heartbeat. It was rough, but we survived. It was I don't know, it took a few days to recover, especially my whole chest. I don't know if like do you put stuff on your boards or does your skin just like toughen up from that? I was like, I definitely will not do that without a without a shirt again because that that sucked, especially I got sensitive nipples. Those were actually my nipples just turned to scabs. I feel like even running in a shirt, I hardly ever do it because they're pretty sensitive and like start you know getting shredded and bloody. Uh and it was it was it was pretty miserable. I didn't think about that. I was like, I need pasties for this. Because I know like I think I didn't realize this because I didn't start running until later in high school, but was like the first long run I did on like a uh a rainy day where your shirt's like really heavy and rubbing on you. Is it was it was rough. It was like I did that long run and that where it really just tears up your nipples. But I didn't know this is the first time I've really been running that much, and definitely in the rain where it like amplifies it. And then after practice, I got home, took my shirt, hopped in the shower, and I like shrieked like a little girl because I'm like, why the fuck do my nipples feel like they're raw? And I look down and my nipples are just like bleeding on the shower, and I'm like, what the hell is going on? And then I'm like, I guess no shirts from here on out it is, and you know, we've kind of kind of lived by that since. And I guess when it comes to surfing, I might have to flip the flip the cards, flip the table, turn it around. On that one, if you're going raw, your nipples are just getting shred on the board, or maybe just I always gotta like perfectly be like sealing on it where I'm keeping my my nips off it. For the rest of it, I yeah, I feel like I feel like there's I guess like all the West Coast people here are probably normally surfing as a wetsuit just because it's so cold. So I don't know about warmer places if you just you know toughen up your skin. Because it was like it was like kind of like a pattern like that matched the mesh of the board where I had like scabs like that all over my chest. It wouldn't it sound worse than it is, like you couldn't really see it that it wasn't that visible, but I could like feel that around my chest. It's like kind of rough, like almost like scaly. It's kind of gross, but uh was you know interesting, you know, lots of lots of lore from that experience. It was it was fun as a whole. I would definitely like to continue surfing again, get better, you know, be like the the penguins from Surfs Up. I don't even remember their names. That's that rooster, that'd be sick, you know, and give my game up. Surf one of those giant waves on the shore that looks sick but also terrifying. I mean, I should probably don't want to do that. It'd be more fun to take the jet ski out there where they like to drop them off. Although that's probably pretty dangerous too. I don't know how that works, but jet skis are a good time. I would definitely be down for that. Okay, how do I how do I sign up for that? That might be, you know, next side quest. You know, let me go drop off some surfers. Whip or whip a jet ski through these giant, they're like hundred-foot waves. This is the thing with like that that uh coast on the Nepali coast. In the wintertime, it's like actually insane the size of the waves that come through there. I kind of would like to do well. I don't even know. I think it is open year-round for hiking, but like just sit on there and see some of those massive waves come in. I don't know how regular it is, but some of them are insane. But I think the real risk though is like the rain on that trail, and like the streams get like flooded, so you can't cross them. So I don't actually have any desire to be on that trail when uh there's any rain or any uh unaptable commission conditions. I don't even know. It was super beautiful, but it was also kind of draining, so I don't entirely know if I want to do it again. But maybe it was fun. But kayaking was also a little bit fun. I mean, pretty fun, but you didn't have to be clenching your butt cheeks the whole time as much. So we'll see. Rath is kind of the go-to thing because it's quick, a little less uh strenuous, and because it's you know, I gotta pay. Well, you gotta pay for kayak too, the kayak is more expensive. I don't know. But lots of lots of good adventures to be had, and we'll see what the future brings. And yeah, we're out of time, so we got lots more to discuss next time. It's been real. Um keep it classy, gang, and we'll catch you in another week. Peace, peace.